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New *Animated* Short Trek: Ephraim & Dot

So which animated Short Trek is the winner?

  • Ephraim and Dot

    Votes: 57 78.1%

  • The Girl Who Made The Stars

    Votes: 6 8.2%

  • Neither, animated Short Treks are rubbish

    Votes: 10 13.7%
  • Total voters
    73
King Bob! said:
Alternate reality confirmed: in the original version of the PSI-2000 mission, Sulu encounters a red shirt and a technician (light blue coveralls). In "Ephraim and Dot", he encounters a blue shirt and a gold shirt.

:rofl:
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Not to mention that chronologically "The Naked Now" occurred before "Space Seed".
 
How do we know that in the discovery universe the original enterprise didn't get retired early? They could have decided that the refit just needed to be a whole new ship and they reused certain parts, such as the engine room? I know its certainly a heck of a stretch, but I was looking at this for pure entertainment value, not ensuring every little detail was historically accurate to previous depictions.
 
Airmandan said:
I know its certainly a heck of a stretch, but I was looking at this for pure entertainment value, not ensuring every little detail was historically accurate to previous depictions.
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I gave "Ephraim and Dot" an 8 out of 10 score. It was highly entertaining. Just having a bit of fun, as we have folks who see Discovery as part of the original timeline, and folks (like me) that see it as an alternate universe.
 
I just watched it. The cuteness level was OFF.THE.SCALE. Adorableness levels in overload. I actually started to cry, it was so cute.

And the final scene between Ephraim and Dot...I am in full :wah: mode.

Also I am 100% not bothered by the supposed continuity issues. It's clearly meant to be a stylized look at Ephraim's constant encounters with Dot and the ship. Not literal at all. Although one could look at it as just Ephraim perceiving the flow of time differently because she's a tardigrade.

And the narrator...the punk on the bus from ST IV... :guffaw:

about the only issue I have is, are all DOT-7 drones sentient, like Dot appears to be? And why can Dot speak? But that's just a minor thing.
 
King Bob! said:
Alternate reality confirmed: in the original version of the PSI-2000 mission, Sulu encounters a red shirt and a technician (light blue coveralls). In "Ephraim and Dot", he encounters a blue shirt and a gold shirt.

:rofl:
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Nah. Sulu just got drunk again and started fencing random crewmembers at some point after Space Seed. Nothing to do with The Naked Time.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Kirk Thatcher reprised his role as the punk on the bus in Spider-Man Homecoming.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.startrek.com/article/trek-ivs-punk-on-bus-returns-in-spider-man-homecoming?amp
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Wow. Spider-Man: Homecoming is a Star Trek film. Who’d a thunk it?

Airmandan said:
How do we know that in the discovery universe the original enterprise didn't get retired early? They could have decided that the refit just needed to be a whole new ship and they reused certain parts, such as the engine room? I know its certainly a heck of a stretch, but I was looking at this for pure entertainment value, not ensuring every little detail was historically accurate to previous depictions.
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No. The animators just made a mistake.
 
Ronald Held said:
Could it be done by someone at Foundation3D fairly easily?
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Pay someone to model the classic ship. Drop it into the existing animations with some modification for the differing proportions. Re-render all the scenes.

It'll cost money.

And would the interiors need to be changed too? Discoprise corridors, Windows that weren't there before? Sulu's fencing being next to some water tanks that weren't there in TOS... where do you draw the line?

Also I thought it was Pixmondo.
 
F. King Daniel said:
Pay someone to model the classic ship. Drop it into the existing animations with some modification for the differing proportions. Re-render all the scenes.

It'll cost money.

And would the interiors need to be changed too? Discoprise corridors, Windows that weren't there before? Sulu's fencing being next to some water tanks that weren't there in TOS... where do you draw the line?

Also I thought it was Pixmondo.
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I thought that ship frames would be done first, as it seems easier to do. I have no experience doing those frame changes.
 
Dukhat said:
Why would CBS care about doing that? Their modus operandi is to invalidate what we saw in TOS.
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They did a poor job of that, using vocal clips and likenesses from what we saw in TOS.

But yeah, the "Discoprise" is canonically what the Enterprise looked like between 2265 and 2270. The TOS Enterprise is about as canonical as Harry Mudd's "ball of light" ship or Dr. Sevrin's refurbished Tholian cruiser. They've been replaced, comrade. They never looked liked that.
 
Ronald Held said:
Not CBS but other CG people who are capable of doing it.
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Ok, let me rephrase: Why would CBS care about hiring CG people to do that?

Trim Thomason said:
They did a poor job of that, using vocal clips and likenesses from what we saw in TOS.
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Well, to be fair they mixed the TOS interior scenes with DSC interior scenes, and in such a way that they really couldn’t be compatible if they were taking the animation seriously (i.e. Sickbay did not have a huge window looking into space; Sulu’s sword fighting scene takes place in a DSC corridor, not a TOS corridor.)
 
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